Recent content by TonyCarter

Erm, me! How ever so prescient of me - and a cheap FE version at RRP at that ;)

Is there a mod to turn on 8x frame gen on my 4090, to give it 7090 performance ;) +1 to the NexusMods recommendation (y)

I believe South of Midnight is also included with MS GamePass...but I've been getting less & less from that as I ween myself of the subscription model (had it for my Xbox Series X, but got fed up with the limited game options). https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/south-of-midnight

No, the 9700X doesn’t have enough cores. With After Effects, and other high-core CPU workloads the 9950X would be the go-to recommendation, as it has double the cores of the 9700X. You’ll notice I’m still not recommending an i9 (or even an i7)…and that’s because they use 2-3x the power for the...

The 780m-890m iGPUs share the system RAM…but are pointless as even entry-level gaming and are really intended to just enable you to connect more/bigger screens…not for gaming. The Radeon 780m iGPU has about 30% the performance of a laptop RTX4060 version. It had 1/4 of the shading units, 1/2...

Will try to compile any notices/press releases I see in this post. First of many I assume... https://www.reuters.com/technology/micron-impose-tariff-related-surcharge-some-products-april-9-sources-say-2025-04-08/

This is about the lowest I could get whilst keeping the case (for quietness) and GPU (for rendering). Case FRACTAL POP SILENT CASE TG (BLACK) Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-5.5GHz/40MB CACHE/AM5) - about the most efficient (so less heat generated), and fastest single...

The GPU is going to use most of your budget unfortunately, so if you go big on the GPU you'll have to go relatively low on the rest of the build...which is never a good move...unfortunately GPU prices are terrible at the moment (e.g. £1200+ for a 5080) and likely to rise with Twump's tariff war...

I agree with that, and was also a bit disappointed that it didn’t go anywhere. Of course I wasn’t expecting a remake of Moon, but they could have fleshed it out more, made it more dark, made it more light-hearted, or even just made it a more pointed commentary on ethics of cloning. It’s not...

I guess the next step is to check whether the 1030 is working at all. But to do that you’ll likely have to remove the 5090 and swap the 1030 to the main GPU slot (leaving the 5090 out of course). Can I also check that you only have the listed 2 SSDs installed in m.2_1 and m.2_2 slots, and...

Just follow the DDU instructions to start in safe mode and remove both the Nvidia and AMD Adrenaline software - just so you know you have a clean base to start from. Then install the Nvidia drivers - I believe you’ll get the same download whether you select the 5090 or the 1030 on the Nvidia...

Have you tried DDU’ing all the graphics drivers and only reinstalling the Nvidia ones? What other options show up in the bottom drop-down box which currently says ‘AMD Radeon (TM) Graphics’?

You'd have Windows plus any apps on your primary drive, and then any projects, files, documents on the second. If you have any special preferences/settings for your apps that you don't want to lose, then I'd even go so far as putting you whole User folder on the second drive, so you don't lose...

In most creative apps there's a preference for the location of your working cache. Keeping it off the main drive means it can use a dedicated memory / SSD path for its own purposes and won't be waiting for the OS drive to complete whatever it's always doing in the background...which could also...

The only really performance upgrade you'd need to make is to the GPU...and that will be every 3 years or so (so maybe 2 or 3 generations later). Of course there's always a newer, faster CPU down the line, but 1 generational upgrade usually isn't worth the cost. Storage can be added/increased...